Brett: Thank you for your help. It has been a few days since I was able to give this a try. However I installed Cygwin on my Windows desktop and SSH'd to the headless machine. I then ran virt-install without the graphics support. Doing this I was able to get past where it was stuck before. I get the CentOS menus for selecting language and then it asks me to configure the IPs. I will only be using IPv4 so I disabled IPV6. However whenever I tell it to use DHCP it hangs forever and I end up having to do a xm destroy and recreate the guest. Can anyone suggest what the next course of action would be? The server has a single physical NIC and 1 IP. Will I need to request an additional IP address to use with the new guest I create? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: centos-virt-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Brett Serkez Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:58 A To: brett at worth.id.au; Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS Subject: Re: [CentOS-virt] Need Help with Xen Please On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Brett Worth <brett at worth.id.au> wrote: > Jason Taylor wrote: > When you connect to the Centos server from your remote console you said before that you're > using ssh. Is this from another Linux system? You need to ensure that you have access to > your local graphical interface from the remote server i.e. that you have a valid DISPLAY > variable set. If "echo $DISPLAY" returns an empty string then maybe you just need to do > "ssh -X centos_server" when connecting so that ssh will forward the X11 back to your > display. Then virt-manager should work. Sometimes ssh -Y works when ssh -X doesn't. Over time I've started using ssh -Y as it always works. If the server is setup correctly, it will not allow you to ssh as root, you'll need to ssh -Y as yourself and then su -. When you use the su command you might loose the DISPLAY variable, in this case simply re-establish it and all should work. If you workstation is Linux, you have an X-Display running. If it is Windows, you can use Cygwin as your X-Server. Brett _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt